I don't want to be part of a movement or church that franchises God's Presence....
I would rather wait, preferring to invite fellow journeymen in life to partake of delacacies at the table of the One I have already dined with. This invitation though is not a marketing exercise, rather more about a tale of wonder. Less about what I have to say and more about the soft whisper that speaks loudly of a private and compelling affection.
From Journal, 25/6/10
Friday, June 25, 2010
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
The Will To Do God's Will
"So Jesus answered them, 'My teaching is not mine, but His who sent me. If anyone's will is to do God's will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority'" John 7v16-17
There is a simple reality in the sharing of the Gospel of Jesus as Christ and Saviour.
Unless the orientation of the heart of the person hearing the truth is OPEN to finding God's will, there is an inability and more importantly an UNWILLINGNESS to respond to Him. That is why Jesus deliberately spoke in Parables, the truth of which were hidden from the proud. No amount of pressure, force of personality or any other human means will work to break this down. Arguments, persuasions, apologetics, pleadings will all fall on 'deaf ears' until the heart opens, like Snowdrops in early Spring sunshine, to the necessity of God. So, saint of God, present God and His Gospel as reality and truth, then wait, wait for the Spirit to blow, wait for God to do what only HE can.....to turn a heart away from self-preoccupation toward a higher calling - the 'will to do God's will'.
The good news is that God HAS gone ahead of us, He IS turning the hearts of men toward Himself, He has appointed many for salvation, we cannot do it without Him, nor were we ever meant to. God has gone ahead of us!
There is a simple reality in the sharing of the Gospel of Jesus as Christ and Saviour.
Unless the orientation of the heart of the person hearing the truth is OPEN to finding God's will, there is an inability and more importantly an UNWILLINGNESS to respond to Him. That is why Jesus deliberately spoke in Parables, the truth of which were hidden from the proud. No amount of pressure, force of personality or any other human means will work to break this down. Arguments, persuasions, apologetics, pleadings will all fall on 'deaf ears' until the heart opens, like Snowdrops in early Spring sunshine, to the necessity of God. So, saint of God, present God and His Gospel as reality and truth, then wait, wait for the Spirit to blow, wait for God to do what only HE can.....to turn a heart away from self-preoccupation toward a higher calling - the 'will to do God's will'.
The good news is that God HAS gone ahead of us, He IS turning the hearts of men toward Himself, He has appointed many for salvation, we cannot do it without Him, nor were we ever meant to. God has gone ahead of us!
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